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- Title
- Sacred objects: Australian design and national celebrations
- Author(s)
- Jackson, Simon
- Abstract
- Whenever there is a national event or celebration in Australia, favourite sporting heroes (including racehorses), celebrated artists and the nation's ‘design icons’ are rolled out in the popular media to confirm a very specific view of Australian ‘white male’ national identity. Three very different types of writings about Australian industrial design are contrasted and two questions are explored: Is there a national design sensibility? Should there be an attempt to create a national canon of design?
- Publication Type
- Journal article
- Research Centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Design
- Source
- Journal of Design History, Vol. 19, no. 3 (2006), pp. 249-255(7)
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Keyword(s)
- Australia; Hills Hoist; Industrial design; Mythology; National identity; Stump-jump plough
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publisher URL
- http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1093/jdh/epl019
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2006 Simon Jackson. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
- ISSN
- 0952-4649
- Full Text
- Peer Reviewed
